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This arrived the other day.  So big hard to take a picture of it.  
 

Our last and inprogress products in 32 scale

Hello Friends!
My name is Dmitry and I'm the CEO of UpRise Decal Serbia company.
We are the Serbian company now - main office and stock in Sombor city, Serbia. Whole world sales, no limits for shipping.
Our roadmap is around 1K items and around 200 of them are for 32 scale. Some of there are unique and were never produced before.
About the our decals:
- it's highest quality printing LASER decals
- bright white color
- mask set if need
- FFA (Film Free Technology), its possible to use our decals as common decals. But it possible to remove the film after 2 hours. The decal looks like a printed over your model surface.
As example of our decals in 32 scale - UR32197 Vought F-8 Crusader stencils, the set included in all our F-8's sets.
Welcome to www.uprise-decal.com
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Mention on Britmodeller of the possibility of a 1:32 Rapier 3DP model from Flying S Models:
 
https://www.britmodeller.com/forums/index.php?/topic/235148891-148-132-north-american-xf-108-rapier-3d-printed-kits-by-flying-s-models-3d-renders/
 
That would be fairly hefty, with a length of about 33ins and a ~22ins wingspan. Pretty sure it would need brass legs, but could be a peach.
 
Tony 

With the modeling room down ATM (mold from a leaky sink that I have cleaned and dried out to a point but am waiting till spring to fully dismantle and re-drywall) and a brand new very large FDM printer on hand along with my two resin printers, I have not been able to do much actual plastic modeling, and have instead been concentrating on doing some 3D printing.
 
After I got the largerr volume FDM printer, there were a couple "dream projects" on my list including a 4' - 5' B-wing fighter from some of the Star Wars series (Rebels) as well as a life size 1:1 scale B1 Battle Droid.
 
I decided the life size battle Droid would be a good start, kinda feeling like Anikin Skywalker, building his own Droid!
 
The printer plate is 350mm squared, so a lot of room to print off multiple parts at one time. 
I have made the entire droid out of ABS, as it is strong, light, cheaper than other options for the same strength, and most importantly, can be welded together without the use of traditional glue, just some melted ABS in acetone.
 
I DL the files for the B1 from Droid Division, containing more than 100 individual components.
 

 
 
A LOT of these parts will unfortunately need a ton of post processing and sanding/filling/priming before paint and assembly......but with the ABS mix I made, it will knock down some of the more substantial print lines and errors.
 
I have not started the post processing yet, as I've still got a few things to figure out first.
Printing out a life size 6'3" (with antennas) Droid is a bit daunting, and has to this date used 4-6 reels of resin and I'm not even remotely done yet.
 
The droid will be held together with furniture hardware and will have a PIR sensor that will react to movement and trigger a bread board with a mini voice processor that will spit out some funny B1 Droid phrases when triggered. 
 
I have about 100 phrases so far, some really funny ones too if you are a SW junkie like myself.
ATM, I have varying boxes with life size unfinished Droid parts in them....chest/head and soon to be neck box, a box for legs, one for arms and shoulders, and one for hips/spine and a final one that I will eventually move accessories into like his backpack parts, antenna and tips, as well as parts for his long range binocs.
 
Chest/head/torso parts:
 

 

 
 
Legs (minus the thighs, have not printed those yet)/feet and ATM, backpack. Turns out we have almost the same shoe size, so the droid is about a size 10.5 US:
 

 
Some of the lower arm parts, shoulders and the smaller box with the hand parts:
 

 
 
 
Spine, lower belly parts and floating "telephone ribs"with soon to be added hip parts, once they are printed:
 

 
 
Some of the individual B1 parts are infact massive, like the main upper chest piece and backing plate that will house all the electronics, and his backpack:
 

 

 
 
Neck parts with dowels and the rest of the forearm parts fresh off the printing plate:
 

 
 
 
So far, with flubs, testing, scrap and the like, I figure this guy has taken about 8-10 lbs of ABS, with some substantial parts still left to print.
 
I really have begun to enjoy this type of thing.....it's now only the MASSIVE amount of post processing/sanding/filling/priming that fills me with a bit of dread. Sanding and filling with SO much room to operate will be a nice change though.....
Fiddling around with a life size humanoid Droid does feel pretty damn cool!
 
He will be fully posable from the waist up and standing only from the waist down for stability reasons, so I'm looking forward to paint, assembly and weathering!
 
Cheers till the next episode!

This arrived the other day.  So big hard to take a picture of it.  
 

Last but not least: Some interior photos from the Fw-190 at Gatows workshop.
 

 

 

 

 
I think this blanket was important to keep the pilot warm at altitude flights
 

 

 
At least I think these are all interior shots of the Fw-190, because they were stored in the same folder as the engine photos.
That's it so far.
 
Regards
- dutik

UC bays
 

 

 

 
Enjoy
- dutik
 

More humo(u)r:
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
Out.

This arrived the other day.  So big hard to take a picture of it.  
 

I'm just finishing off the PCM C200, just the prop and radio aerial to do, the prop took a bit of time to get right with the Celeste and black blades but I got there in the end.
Unfortunately the kit does not come with prop blade logos, however a search on Hannants site revealed that Kora do logo decals in 1/32 scale so these arrived today.

 

 
Cheers
 
Dennis

This arrived the other day.  So big hard to take a picture of it.  
 

This arrived the other day.  So big hard to take a picture of it.  
 

This arrived the other day.  So big hard to take a picture of it.  
 

This arrived the other day.  So big hard to take a picture of it.  
 

This arrived the other day.  So big hard to take a picture of it.  
 

This arrived the other day.  So big hard to take a picture of it.  
 

This arrived the other day.  So big hard to take a picture of it.  
 

Just got this set from ModelMaker Decals today - Time to dig out another Tamiya Thunderbird kit.. 😃 Merry Christmas I say..
Excited to see how those paints behave - they smell pretty nasty in the box 🤢
 
 

 

 

Once I "discovered" this, I knew I needed to try it out.
 

Did some early Christmas shopping for myself.  
 

 
 
 
 

I picked up a couple sci-fi kits. Mostly Bandai but one Hasegawa. 
 

 

 

 

Post Shading
I've added the green base colour in the same manner as the two browns and then used a different darker green to add some tonal variation.
Using the panel lines as guides I added some more defined tonal areas where panels were often removed.

 
The aim is to slightly 'overdo' the colouring as it will be toned down with a base coat later.
At this point I'm not too worried about any particular pattern other than the specific panels I wish to highlight, variety being the name of the game.

 
Certain areas gather more dirt than others so they got a little more treatment.
You can also see the brass replacement light housing on the front of the fin that I previously managed to break off.

 
I'm not trying to follow all panel lines religiously as this can be a little unrealistic and too 'uniform' as a method of weathering.

So far I'm happy with the result which I will tone down with thinned base colour to get the desired 'used' look but hopefully with subtle tonal depth. 
Hopefully success at this stage means I can go easier at the weathering stage.

Did some early Christmas shopping for myself.  
 

 
 
 
 

Did some early Christmas shopping for myself.